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Charles Thurstan Shaw

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#515

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#726

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Archeology

#32

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#56

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According to Wikipedia, Chief Charles Thurstan Shaw CBE FBA FSA was an English archaeologist, the first trained specialist to work in what was then British West Africa. He specialized in the ancient cultures of present-day Ghana and Nigeria. He helped establish academic institutions, including the Ghana National Museum and the archaeology department at the University of Ghana. He began working with the University of Ibadan in 1960, where he later founded and developed its archaeology department. He led this for more than 10 years before his retirement in 1974.

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Charles Thurstan Shaw's Published Works

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The Archaeology of Africa : Food, Metals and Towns (1996) (248)
Symbiosis, Instability, and the Origins and Spread of Agriculture: A New Model [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (148)
Excavations at iwo eleru, ondo state, Nigeria (1984) (86)
Igbo-Ukwu: an account of archaeological discoveries in eastern Nigeria (1970) (85)
Nigeria: Its Archaeology and Early History (1978) (81)
Gao and Igbo-Ukwu: Beads, interregional trade, and beyond (1997) (61)
Report on Excavations carried out in the Cave known as ‘Bosumpra’ at Abetifi, Kwahu, Gold Coast Colony (1944) (58)
On the Quality of Evidence for Origin and Dispersal of Cultivated Plants [and Comments and Reply] (1973) (52)
A Late Upper Pleistocene Proto-West African Negro from Nigeria (1971) (49)
Africa in the Iron Age. (1976) (42)
Early Smoking Pipes: In Africa, Europe, and America (1960) (41)
Metal Sources and the Bronzes From Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria (1997) (38)
Early Crops in Africa: A Review of the Evidence (1976) (38)
The Sahara and the Nile: Quaternary Environments and Prehistoric Occupation in Northern Africa (1980) (34)
Those Igbo-Ukwu radiocarbon dates: facts, fictions and probabilities (1975) (33)
NIGERIAN SOURCES OF COPPER, LEAD AND TIN FOR THE IGBO‐UKWU BRONZES (1989) (32)
Archaeology in Nigeria (1969) (32)
Early Agriculture in Africa (1972) (24)
Unearthing Igbo-Ukwu (1977) (23)
African archaeology: looking back and looking forward (1989) (19)
Unearthing Igbo-Ukwu: Archaeological Discoveries in Eastern Nigeria. (1977) (18)
The contemporary plundering of Africa’s past (1997) (18)
Geoarchaeology: Earth Science and the Past (1980) (17)
Le site archeologique de la Kamoa (region du Shaba, republique de Zaire) de l'age de la pierre ancien a l'age du fer (1976) (16)
Radiocarbon Dating in Nigeria (1968) (12)
SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF THE IGBO AND OTHER NIGERIAN BRONZES (1965) (9)
FURTHER SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF NIGERIAN BRONZES (1969) (9)
Africa in Prehistory: Leader or Laggard? (1971) (9)
The Nok Sculptures of Nigeria (1981) (8)
Out of Africa and out of context (1995) (7)
Bead-Making with a Bow-Drill in the Gold Coast (1945) (6)
Smoking in Africa (1964) (5)
Péridotites et gabbros à la transition continent-océan d'une marge passive : résultats préliminaires du Leg ODP 149 dans la Plaine Abyssa le Ibérique (1994) (5)
210. Excavations at Igbo-Ukwu, Eastern Nigeria: An Interim Report (1960) (5)
The Cambridge History of Africa: Vol. I. From the Earliest Times to c. 500 B. C. (1983) (5)
Lectures on Nigerian prehistory and archaeology (1969) (5)
Ife and Raymond Mauny (1981) (5)
Excavation at Dawu : report on an excavation in a mound at Dawu, Akuapim, Ghana (1961) (4)
SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF THE IGBO AND OTHER NIGERIAN BRONZES: POSTSCRIPT (1966) (4)
Goodwin's graft, Burkitt's craft (1991) (4)
217. Further Excavations at Igbo-Ukwu, Eastern Nigeria: An Interim Report (1965) (4)
Tree-felling by Fire (1969) (3)
Prehistoric settlement and subsistence in the Kaduna Valley, Nigeria (1989) (3)
Archaeology and Nigeria : an expanded version of an inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Ibadan on 29 November, 1963 (1967) (3)
Les siècles obscurs de l'Afrique Noire. By Raymond Mauny. Paris: Fayard, 1970. Pp. 314, 91 ill. F.45. (1975) (3)
Methods of Earthwork Building (1970) (3)
The study of Africa's past (1946) (2)
The Igbo-Ukwu Bronzes (1973) (2)
African Beginnings (1983) (2)
Archaeology in the gold coast (1943) (2)
20. Further Difficulties of Indirect Rule in the Gold Coast (1945) (2)
Field Research in Nigerian Archaeology (1963) (1)
217. Chronology of Excavation at Dawu, Ghana (1962) (1)
Attribution of function: another cautionary tale (1980) (1)
Some Comments Concerning Hockett and Ascher's Contribution on the Human Revolution (1966) (1)
GEOCHEMICAL METHODS IN THE DETECTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL BRONZES (1966) (1)
Filling Gaps in Afric Maps: Fifty Years of Archaeology in Africa (1985) (1)
Ground under in the literature (1985) (1)
Bones in Africa Presidential Address 1989 (1990) (1)
On Radiocarbon Chronology of the Iron Age in Sub-Saharan Africa (1969) (1)
Mallam Umaru Garba Gol (1997) (1)
Whose heritage?1 (2009) (1)
Statistics in Archaeology (1969) (0)
The academic profession and contemporary politics (1989) (0)
Francis Van Noten: The archaeology of Central Africa. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1982. 100 pp., 40 figs., 32 pls. (8 in colour). (1983) (0)
Appreciation for Peter Ucko, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Archaeology and former Director of the Institute of Archaeology, UCL (1996–2006) (2007) (0)
Planting ideas in the literature (1989) (0)
Prévention des lésions structurales articulaires après un an de traitement par rituximab chez les patients atteints de polyarthrite rhumatoïde avec réponse inadéquate à un ou plusieurs anti-TNF (étude REFLEX) (2006) (0)
Réponse clinique après un premier traitement par rituximab : relation avec les taux d'autoanticorps (FR, anti-CCP) à l'état basal (2007) (0)
The mountain man and the president (1993) (0)
Eastern Nigeria: Excavations and Interviews (1985) (0)
African Art . By Frank Willett. 8 × 5½. Pp. 288 + 261 illustrations (of which 61 are in colour and 3 are maps). London: Thames & Hudson, 1971. £2.10.--- Either ISSN or Journal title must be supplied. (1972) (0)
Les statuettes Nok du Nigeria (1981) (0)
L'inhibition de la progression radiologique avec le rituximab ne dépend pas de l'efficacité clinique : résultats d'une étude chez des patients atteints de polyarthrite rhumatoïde et présentant une réponse inadéquate à au moins 1 anti-TNF (REFLEX) (2007) (0)
J.-P. Lebeuf, M. D. Lebeuf, F. Terinen-Claustre and J. Courtin: Le gisement Sao de Mdage (Tchad) : Fouilles 1960-1968. (Afrique Ancienne.)214 pp., 6 plates. Paris: Société d'ethnographie, 1980. (1983) (0)
The Petrology of Archaeological Artefacts (1984) (0)
G. Caton Thompson: The Zimbabwe culture: ruins and reactions. Second edition, with a new introduction by the author . London: Cass, 1971. 358 pp., 73 pls., 26 figs. £8.20. (1971) (0)
Prehistory of the Niger Delta (1981) (0)
Africa: The art of a continent - Phillips,T (1995) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Ife in the History of West African Sculpture. Frank Willett (1969) (0)
Colette Roubet, Henri-Jean Hugot & Georges Souville (eds): Préhistoire africaine: mélanges offerts au Doyen Lionel Balout. Recherche sur les grandes civilisations, Synthèse No. 6. Paris: Editions ADPF, 1981. 376 pp., numerous figs. English price: £11.80. (1982) (0)
"A Bibliography of Nigerian Archaeology", Thurstan Shaw, Joel Vanderburg, Ibadan 1969 : [recenzja] / E. Kowalczyk. (1971) (0)
Ife in the History of West African Sculpture. By Frank Willett. 10 × 7½. Pp. 232 + 110 pls. + 41 figs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1967. £4. 4s. (1968) (0)
James Kirkman: Fort Jesus: a Portuguese fortress on the East African coast. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. 327 pp., 84 figs., 44 pls. £12.50. (1975) (0)
On Traditional House Construction and Archaeological Inference (1985) (0)
Bassey Wai Andah, First Memorial Lecture: A Tribute to the life and work of Professor Bassey Wai Andah (1999) (0)
Professor Bassey Andah (1942-1997) (1998) (0)
The 'Mysterious' Ruins of Great Zimbabwe (1992) (0)
In Praise of Interdisciplinary Archaeology (1977) (0)

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